Blog 37

Today in Western Civ we went over the test for tomorrow more and here's the notes that I made more in depth
section 4;

ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Philipe the second was Alexander the greats dad
Alexander the great conquers masidonia when he was 20
 Alexander became king because his father was assassinated
Alexander then conquered Persia
took over greek main land, Persian empire and Egypt
 DARIUS THE THIRD
Darius the third was king of Persia
 killed by his own solders because he was wimpy

after he is defeated he tries to make peace and give him a third of Persia but Alexander declines and keeps battling and won it all

section 5;

1.) hellenistic- greek culture blended with cultures with Egyptian Persian and Indian
Alexandria- Egyptian city that was the center of commerce (money) right on Nile and Mediterranean
Euclid- a mathmetition who taught in Alexandrea
archimedes-he was a hellenistic scientist he estimated the value of pi
Colossus of Rhodes- largest hellenistic statue created on the island of Rhodes. was then toppled by an earth quake in 225 b.c.

 3. trade contributes to the hellenistic culture because it was an international community.
4.)Euclid created a a meuseame containing an observatory which other astronomers could study planets and stars

Lysistrata= Aristophenes = comedy
Oedipus Rex= Sophocles= tragedy

GO OVER GOVERNMENTS
arosticse- run by the nobles
democracy- run by people

PHLOSIPHERS
Socroteis  came up w Socratic method charged by courting youth of Athens
Plato   wrote a book called the apology talking about societies also had the allegory of the cave (if you can get out of your comfort zone you will learn more thing but when you go back home there will be resistance)
Aristotle  student of plato. decided to gather all very smart people and had then all together talking (lyceum)  also alexanders tutor